Looks like he answered the question at 1:10 no need to watch the video after 1:10.
Was debating whether i would watch this or not because of the seemingly uninteresting topic, but damn... This guy manages to make everything interesting, specially since i'm very interested in language.
[QUOTE=Aide;46838384]Looks like he answered the question at 1:10 no need to watch the video after 1:10.[/QUOTE]
vsauce is p much 90% waffle at this point i just dont get it anymore
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;46838428]vsauce is p much 90% waffle at this point i just dont get it anymore[/QUOTE]
Ask a question. Answers it and then teaches you something new by going off a tangent. It does seem like he spends a lot more time on the teaching something new.
the question literally no one has ever asked themselves
the tangents are the whole point in his videos if it wasn't already obvious enough
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;46838584]the question literally no one has ever asked themselves[/QUOTE]
The question where restaurants must now be obligated to serve cereal for lunch and dinner now.
[QUOTE=Aide;46838384]Looks like he answered the question at 1:10 no need to watch the video after 1:10.[/QUOTE]
I stopped there, thank you. I wouldn't want to continue, and by the end of the video, have to face an existential crisis over a video classifying what a breakfast food is.
[QUOTE=Aide;46838384]Looks like he answered the question at 1:10 no need to watch the video after 1:10.[/QUOTE]
Which would defeat the whole point of Vsauce
He goes on wild tangents to broaden our understanding of the world by showing how information is connected
If you just want a cut-and-dried answer, google it or something
[editline]1st January 2015[/editline]
The funny thing about gruntled is that it's an actual word, but created a few hundred years [I]after[/I] disgruntled as its back-formation
[QUOTE=Aide;46838384]Looks like he answered the question at 1:10 no need to watch the video after 1:10.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it would be way better if the videos were like this:
"Hey, VSAUCE! Michael here. Is cereal soup? No. It's not. Thanks for watching."
[QUOTE=.Lain;46838696]the tangents are the whole point in his videos if it wasn't already obvious enough[/QUOTE]
well yeah but he still chose a pretty bizarre question to start off the video with
I personally believe its a soup
I wonder where Michael lives when he's not on camera. Is he like a jack in the box? Maybe that explains why he pops from the bottom of the frame all the time.
[QUOTE=Gray Altoid;46839660]I wonder where Michael lives when he's not on camera. Is he like a jack in the box? Maybe that explains why he pops from the bottom of the frame all the time.[/QUOTE]
He lives in London I think.
What if cereal is just cereal?
I don't call Salads "Soup with leafy greens" the same was I don't think Top Ramen is nearly as healthy as Salad, and shouldn't be "Noodles with a fancy dressing that makes up 50% of the meal"
[QUOTE=minilandstan;46839758]What if cereal is just cereal?
I don't call Salads "Soup with leafy greens" the same was I don't think Top Ramen is nearly as healthy as Salad, and shouldn't be "Noodles with a fancy dressing that makes up 50% of the meal"[/QUOTE]
way to miss the point.
[QUOTE=minilandstan;46839758]What if cereal is just cereal?
I don't call Salads "Soup with leafy greens" the same was I don't think Top Ramen is nearly as healthy as Salad, and shouldn't be "Noodles with a fancy dressing that makes up 50% of the meal"[/QUOTE]
[quote="Wikipedia"]A salad is a dish consisting of small pieces of raw or cooked food mixed with a sauce and almost always served cold. Salads can be based around a wide variety of foods including vegetables, fruits, and cooked meat, eggs, and grains.[/quote]
If someone adds milk to a salad, even though it's an extremely odd choice, it would still count as a dressing. If they add Cheerios to a salad, it would still be part of the salad
So if you took Cheerios (a grain) and added a bit of milk as dressing, would that be a salad? What if you added a lot of milk? Why can't that be a salad but a bunch of fruit can be called a fruit salad? Why can chicken with mayo be called a chicken salad? If it's 50% mayo does it stop being chicken salad, or is it chicken salad with a lot of mayo?
Anyway the point of this video was to point out the volatility of human language, and the point of Vsauce is to question what we think we know, so saying "of course not, that's just stupid" is missing the point
[QUOTE=Jund;46838803]Which would defeat the whole point of Vsauce
He goes on wild tangents to broaden our understanding of the world by showing how information is connected
If you just want a cut-and-dried answer, google it or something
[editline]1st January 2015[/editline]
The funny thing about gruntled is that it's an actual word, but created a few hundred years [I]after[/I] disgruntled as its back-formation[/QUOTE]
I dunno, his transitions always seem really forced. Like there's so little connection between most of the things he says it just seems really bizarre when he tries to make it fit together.
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;46839899]I dunno, his transitions always seem really forced. Like there's so little connection between most of the things he says it just seems really bizarre when he tries to make it fit together.[/QUOTE]
Every video has a main point and everything he talks about is tied to it
He's not here to explain everything to you. He sets a focal point, spews out a lot of information surrounding the topic, and if you find something interesting you go look it up to learn more about it
Remember when we actually used to be interested in learning about new things instead of mindlessly memorizing what the professor recites everyday? Me neither
[QUOTE=Aide;46838384]Looks like he answered the question at 1:10 no need to watch the video after 1:10.[/QUOTE]
Look at Tom Scott if you want videos like that
[video=youtube;p7I4xpSz6-Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7I4xpSz6-Y[/video]
[QUOTE=Furioso;46839242]Yeah it would be way better if the videos were like this:
"Hey, VSAUCE! Michael here. Is cereal soup? No. It's not. Thanks for watching."[/QUOTE]
They should make an aprils fools video like this
Cereal is not soup because soup is good food
[editline]2nd January 2015[/editline]
Just kidding I think I have Count-Choculitis
alright i don't care about this video but if you put your milk in a separate, open container you'd better be using it all right then and there because otherwise you're a savage
what was with that toilet flush transition? that was the highlight of the video for me
Breakfast cereal is porridge
[QUOTE=galimatias;46841084]They should make an aprils fools video like this[/QUOTE]
Answer question in the first minute, without going off on any tangents.
Next seven minutes of video is him trying to squeeze an actual NES cartridge with nothing coming out.
One of my favourite linguistic phenomena is backronyms. Not only because it's fascinating that we feel as if we must invent an etymology for certain, often historically murky words, but also because it's such a basic pun that also works so wonderfully.
Pretty sure half the content in this video is recycled from a past Vsauce video
El Legato
An eke name
That was the dog's bollocks
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